Proposal:Vaccination
| Key:vaccination | |
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| Proposal status: | Approved (active) |
| Proposed by: | Polarbear_w |
| Tagging: | vaccination=* |
| Applies to: |  
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| Definition: | Illnesses against which a vaccination provides protection |
| Statistics: |
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| Draft started: | 2020-11-24 |
| RFC start: | 2020-11-24 |
| Vote start: | 2020-12-08 |
| Vote end: | 2020-12-22 |
Proposal
The key is used to list the illnesses against which a vaccination provides protection.
Its primary intention is to use it as a subtag for healthcare:speciality=vaccination.
The value for the key can be one single illness, a semicolon-separated list of such or a common name for groups of illnesses.
The value should be given in a compact form in lower-case letters, for the illness (not the name of the virus/bacterium).
The voting is intended to be limited to deciding the key and the initial covid19 value, not other potential values.
The proposed key vaccination=* might be used in conjunction with alternative keys not considered yet.
Rationale
With the rapid development of vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 in the current COVID-19 pandemic, many municipalities are setting up vaccination centres to administer the protectional injections. Currently this needs to be performed in centralised centres as opposed to individual doctor's offices since the vaccine has specific requirements e.g. for storage at considerably low temperatures, and mass vaccination processes have to be organised.
Germany, for example, announced on 2020-12-04 to establish 350 such centres.
This proposal however is supposed to provide a useful key beyond the pandemic, and is such open for protection against other illnesses and various forms of logistics.
healthcare:speciality=vaccination as the targeted primary tag has been documented on the healthcare=* page since 2017-02-06. While it was not in the original healthcare proposal it is undisputed and plausible, used 34x at the time of the RFC.
Examples / Tagging
In Berlin/Germany, the two former airport buildings Tegel and Tempelhof are planned to be vaccination centres, along with some large sports facilities.
A COVID-19 vaccination centre would be tagged, on the building outline or as a POI node, as follows:
- healthcare:speciality=vaccination
- vaccination=covid19
Other potential values include:
- influenza; measles; poliomyelitis; hepatitis
Other facilities could administer specific vaccinations, e.g. a clinic for travel medicine could provide protection against typical tropical_diseases, which could be used in a group value:
- tropical_diseases
Applies to
Building or campus outline or to a POI node.
Rendering
As other healthcare features, or used on specialised pandemic-targeted maps.
Features/Pages affected
The healthcare:speciality=vaccination is refined with the subkey.
External discussions
- Tagging list Nov 2020
- German forum
- OSM-collection of vaccination centres in Germany in the wiki
Discussion results
No top-level tag prescribed
The proposal intentionally does not prescribe the use of a particular top-level tag, since the physical characteristics of a vaccination facility can vary a lot, within a country and internationally.
It is to the discretion of the mapper to chose an appropriate top-level tag accordingly. Some examples are given on the discussion page.
The proposal recommends the use of healthcare:speciality=vaccination for the first descriptive tag, but other uses, already known or to be invented in the future, should be allowed explicitly.
Backward and forward compatibility
The proposal is backward compatible with existing tags, i.e. its use does not require to change some other tagging.
It is forward compatible, i.e. it can be used with similar cases (illnesses in this case) now and in future.
Simplicity and Searchability
The tagging scheme is simple, one new key was proposed, to be used in conjunction with an existing tag from the healthcare:speciality scheme. The top-level tag can be chosen by the mapper according to the local circumstances.
The key provides the nucleus of searching for facilities providing vaccination, or vaccination against Covid19 in the acute case. E.g. here is the Overpass search for "vaccination=covid19". This enables easy rendering or POI overlay on maps, as well as maintainability.
Temporary character and removing
Some participants discussed the temporary character of vaccination facilities during a pandemic. Anyway we do map objects with varying life span, this is not unusual for OSM. We do map construction sites, we do map temporary facilities in natural disasters and humanity crises, as this is a global one. If a facility has a predefined closing date, that can be mapped as end_date=*. Anyway most people expect the facilities to operate at least a year or even much longer.
Most discussion participants were against automatic removal in case the pandemic is over and pleaded for manual mapper response to facilities closing, most likely they won't close all at the same time. However even a bot could use a search scheme as above.
Voting
Please remember the voting is about the single key, not a full scheme.
Voting question:
Do you approve the introduction of the vaccination=* key, the value vaccination=covid19, and the principle to name the illness or group of illnesses in further values in a compact form.
Voting on this proposal has been closed.
It was approved with 25 votes for, 0 votes against and 4 abstentions.
I approve this proposal. --Polarbear w (talk) 11:43, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
I have comments but abstain from voting on this proposal. This gets the job done, but would much prefer yes/no namespace. --CjMalone (talk) 23:01, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
